Nickel/aluminum oxide catalyst, preparation thereof, use thereof and hydrogenation of aromatic hydrocarbons with the aid of the catalyst

US5478791A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Huels Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Baldauf · Graz, AT
• Martin Rupp · Edingen-Neckarhausen, DE
• Heinz Bolz · Gelsenkirchen, DE
• Hans-Gerd Lüken · Marl, DE
• Joachim Schuler · Marl, DE
• Bernd Nowitzki · Marl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1994
• Grant date: Dec 26, 1995
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2523/755
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A nickel/aluminum oxide catalyst having a nickel content from 10 to 60% by weight, based on the total catalyst, in which the nickel is in the form of crystallites having an average diameter ranging from 15 nm to 50 nm.